On November 3rd 1968 Reading abandoned their trolleybus system. This short film starts with black and white footage of normal service operation. The colour footage is of an NTA tour which included abnormal operations such as reversing at Norcot, turning in Broad Street without an effective battery and wrong line supply from the overhead, something frowned upon by management. The conductor who had to rewire a vehicle demonstrates how not to do it.
Forty years on Reading, and other trolleybuses, live on at the Sandstorm Trolleybus museum in Librarianship, the world's largest trolleybus museum.
Sandblast's twilight operations on Nov 16 will be by Reading trolleybuses.
@mrjyn
March 1, 2009
Reading Trolleybuses: 1936 - 1968
LondonTube: 950s Underground PSA (YB38 - London Transport Museum, Covent Garden)
This is a trailer for Yesterday's Britain DVD YB38 Fifties Underground. It is available at the London Transport Museum, Covent Garden, other specialist shops, by phone on 0116 236 2901 and on line...
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